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    • Wednesday, 10 August, 2022
      Robert Shrimsley
      Tory terror spurs new war with the state

      The Truss camp harks back to Thatcher, but recent Conservative leaders abandoned the case for small government

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      Helen Thomas
      The UK government’s venture fund has a problem — with failure and success

      It is unclear how state-owned British Business Bank will handle its investments in hundreds of small private companies

    • Sunday, 7 August, 2022
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      UK’s government investment fund largely backed ‘zombie businesses’

      Audit committee member on state-backed bank warned of ‘significant tail of dormant companies’ in Future Fund

    • Thursday, 4 August, 2022
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      Bain considers legal action against UK over state contract ban

      Management consultancy looks at options after minister’s decision caught it by surprise

    • Thursday, 4 August, 2022
      OutlookJennifer Williams
      ‘Levelling up’ has been sidelined by Truss and Sunak

      It may have been a slippery election slogan, but the regional inequality it purported to solve is all too real

    • Wednesday, 3 August, 2022
      Robert Shrimsley
      Truss attacks on the Treasury highlight Tories’ deeper failure

      That her rival Sunak is a former chancellor hands her a weapon — but this has long been a theme of Conservative politics

    • Monday, 1 August, 2022
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      IFS warns salary increases and rises in energy and catering costs will hit budgets

    • Friday, 29 July, 2022
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      Scale of NHS treatment disaster implies £400mn bill for those ‘living on borrowed time’

    • Thursday, 28 July, 2022
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      Tory candidates need to offer a prescription for NHS ills

      The Conservative party leadership debate should move beyond fiscal policy to other key areas

    • Wednesday, 27 July, 2022
      UK defence spending
      UK ministers ‘arrogant and unwilling to learn’ on military strategy

      MPs warn armed forces face capability gap and Ukraine shows mistake in cutting heavy armour

    • Tuesday, 26 July, 2022
      UK government spending
      MPs criticise award of £777mn Covid contracts to medical group Randox

      ‘Impossible to have confidence’ deals issued to diagnostics company were done properly, says committee report

    • Monday, 25 July, 2022
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      England’s pandemic ‘traffic-light’ travel system under fire from MPs

      Ministers did not know if £486mn ‘cost was worth the disruption’, says report criticising quarantine policy

    • Monday, 25 July, 2022
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      UK Treasury blocks ‘non-essential’ overseas aid payments

      Action taken over fears Ukraine relief will breach spending cap but ex-minister says it will ‘cost lives’

    • Sunday, 24 July, 2022
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      Race for No 10: the key Truss and Sunak backers in line for top jobs

      MPs from rival camps reveal who is likely to be promoted after Boris Johnson’s successor is chosen

    • Friday, 22 July, 2022
      UK business & economy
      UK business secretary defers Tata steelworks decision to next prime minister

      Kwasi Kwarteng says next leader must decide on company’s request for £1.5bn in subsidies for Port Talbot plant

    • Thursday, 21 July, 2022
      UK politics & policy
      No 10 accused of ‘reheating’ deals for cost of living campaign

      Labour party and charities say the latest initiatives are not enough to tackle crisis

    • Thursday, 21 July, 2022
      Inside Politics
      Is it too late for Sunak to win over Tory members?

      Blue on blue fight represents the biggest clash over economic policy since at least the 1990s

    • Tuesday, 19 July, 2022
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      UK government produces public sector pay offer that pleases no one

      Partial concession leaves workers unhappy and managers facing tough decisions

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      UK government lagging on pandemic-related PPE fraud, say MPs

      Commons committee says suppliers ‘are likely to have made excessive profits’, leaving taxpayer to foot bill ‘for years to come’

    • Tuesday, 19 July, 2022
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      Western democracies have a talent problem

      Able people of sensible views don’t go into politics. The results are all around us

    • Tuesday, 19 July, 2022
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      What Mary Poppins has to teach governments and businesses

      Gamification can change our behaviour but it is not without its problems

    • Monday, 18 July, 2022
      UK politics & policy
      Court rules UK plan to hit net zero target for emissions too vague

      Government ordered to publish updated climate strategy with more detail by end of March 2023

    • Thursday, 14 July, 2022
      Law
      UK judge halts trial of two defendants in Saudi bribery case

      SFO alleges illicit payments were channelled to Riyadh officials to secure UK defence contracts

    • Wednesday, 13 July, 2022
      Brexit
      UK ministers to tear up post-Brexit trade deal

      Tory leadership candidates show no sign of challenging plans to water down Northern Ireland protocol

    • Tuesday, 12 July, 2022
      Scottish independence
      London say it is ‘premature’ for Supreme Court to rule on Scottish referendum

      Submission to court says test of whether Holyrood could hold vote could only start after a bill is passed

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